Hill Collins, Patricia

Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Patricia Hill Collins - New York : Routledge, 2008 - xvii, 357 p. ; 22 cm. - Routledge classics .

Originally published in 1990 ; first published in Routledge Classics, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

The politics of Black feminist thought -- Distinguishing features of Black feminist thought -- Work, family, and Black women's oppression -- Mammies, matriarchs, and other controlling images -- The power of self-definition -- The sexual politics of black womanhood -- Black women's love relationships -- Black women and motherhood -- Rethinking Black women's activism -- U.S. Black feminism in transnational context -- Black feminist epistemology -- Toward a politics of empowerment

9780415964722 (pbk) RM92.42


Feminism--United States
African American women


United States--Race relations